spizella passerina

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   small North American finch common in urban areas

   Synonymschipping sparrow

   BroaderNew World sparrow

   Part ofSpizella

Questions about spizella passerina

What does spizella passerina mean?

spizella passerina means "small North American finch common in urban areas".

What is another word for spizella passerina?

Close synonyms include chipping sparrow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spizella passerina a common word?

spizella passerina is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.